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Posted on Tuesday, Feb 7th 2006

Apple slashes prices to maintain market share of the iPod family, much to the dismay of ALL competitors and aspirants.

Seth Godin makes a point that Fashion items don’t come with extended warranty, neither should the iPod.

Well, clearly, the sun is shining brightly on Apple right now, and many, many rules can be written and re-written to suit whatever the hell they feel like doing.

Meanwhile, here is a little post on a new chip by IBM that questions Apple’s decision to switch to Intel. I don’t think the decision is untimely at all. Apple had to take a step in the direction of the mainstream market, and pairing up with Intel is a good start.

Also, Microsoft is providing a kick in Symantec’s behind, (See my earlier analysis on the Security market), while it gets a kick from Google on its own, as it offers to pay PC Makers to include software like search, gmail, and chat at boot-time.

As I said recently, they could also provide toolbar level links to CRM, Security, and Collaboration via three acquisitions: Salesforce.com, Qualys, and Webex.

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